Job summary
Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP), Band 5 in Children's Wellbeing Practitioner Pathway.
Are you looking to work in a supportive, collaborative early intervention service who can offer career progression and training opportunities?
Here is a great opportunity to join our expanding service.
As a CWP, you will be expected to work as part of a dynamic service closely aligned with our mental health support team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged. You will received regular supervision.
This approach requires flexibility and working in community settings and schools. We encourage CPD and will continue to support you to consolidate and develop your skills. You will be able to use your skills via direct individual and group work to support children, young people and their parents.
There will be an expectation and opportunities to work collaboratively with children, young people and their families to support the co-production and development of the service, creating meaningful participation work.
CWP accreditation expected, we welcome CWPs, EMHPs and PWPs with the appropriate and transferable skills.
Main duties of the job
As a qualified Children's Wellbeing Practitioner(CWP) you will be expected to work as part of a dynamic team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged. This approach requires flexibility and adaptability, and above all a passion for working with children and young people in the community and educational settings. The post-holder will already have developed knowledge and practice skills to employ a range of evidence based interventions for common mental health problems via direct individual and group support for children, young people and their parents.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner role will:
- Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals delivering a wide range of evidence informed interventions.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to work directly with children, young people and families.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to carry out holistic and child-centered mental health assessments, including risk assessments.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to facilitate parenting programmes.
The Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner is required to:
- Have the relevant CWP or EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence -Based Psychological Treatment for Children Young People (C&Y IAPT) (successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1 year Education Mental Health Practitioner course). Or Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) CYP-IAPT qualification
- Evidence of continuing Professional Development and commitment of ongoing learning.
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or mental health difficulties
Please note: The CWP post be within a service covering the county of Northamptonshire and will be based across Northamptonshire.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner role will:
- Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals delivering a wide range of evidence informed interventions.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to work directly with children, young people and families.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to carry out holistic and child-centered mental health assessments, including risk assessments.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to facilitate parenting programmes.
The Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner is required to:
- Have the relevant CWP or EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence -Based Psychological Treatment for Children Young People (C&Y IAPT) (successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1 year Education Mental Health Practitioner course). Or Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) CYP-IAPT qualification
- Evidence of continuing Professional Development and commitment of ongoing learning.
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or mental health difficulties
Please note: The CWP post be within a service covering the county of Northamptonshire and will be based across Northamptonshire.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CWP, EMHP or PWP with transferable skills
Desirable
- Low intensity supervisors course
- Additional therapeutic approaches (e.g. NVR)
Skills and abilities
Essential
- offer one to one CBT approach interventions
- Facilitate group workshops for staff, cyps and parents
- Understand WSA
- Ability to assess for risk
- Ability to safety plan
- Ability to recognise and refer for safeguarding concerns
- car driver/user
Desirable
knowledge and experience
Essential
- experience of children and young people's development/transferable skills
- experience of working with families
- experience of working as part of an MDT
- previous experience of one to one work
- previous experience of parent led work
- experience of facilitating groups and assemblies
- experience of safeguarding
- experience of mental heath assessments
Desirable
- knowledge of relevant legislation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CWP, EMHP or PWP with transferable skills
Desirable
- Low intensity supervisors course
- Additional therapeutic approaches (e.g. NVR)
Skills and abilities
Essential
- offer one to one CBT approach interventions
- Facilitate group workshops for staff, cyps and parents
- Understand WSA
- Ability to assess for risk
- Ability to safety plan
- Ability to recognise and refer for safeguarding concerns
- car driver/user
Desirable
knowledge and experience
Essential
- experience of children and young people's development/transferable skills
- experience of working with families
- experience of working as part of an MDT
- previous experience of one to one work
- previous experience of parent led work
- experience of facilitating groups and assemblies
- experience of safeguarding
- experience of mental heath assessments
Desirable
- knowledge of relevant legislation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
